Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber & Faber, 1966. First Edition. Pp, 57. Green cloth boards and original dust jacket (salmon and white, lettered in black). Light wear along top edge of jacket, small scuff mark to centre of jacket spine, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page.

Heaney’s inaugural collection & first major work in hard back which won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C. Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in year of publication. A year earlier he published a collection in wrappers entitled ‘Eleven Poems’ while still a student in Queen’s University, Belfast.

‘His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland, the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry. The full-blooded energy of these poems makes Death of a Naturalist the best first book of poems I’ve read for some time.’ – C.B. Cox in the Spectator